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EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud is the infrastructure cloud of EveryWare AG, a cloud and managed IT service provider based in Zurich. Its Open Cloud is an OpenStack-based infrastructure-as-a-service platform with virtual machines, block storage, virtual networks, firewalls and load balancers, run in self-service or on demand through a dashboard and API. The same sovereign platform also offers a VMware-based cloud, managed Kubernetes, object storage, backup as a service and GPU services. Customers can add managed operations from the provider's engineering team.

EveryWare is part of the ELCA Group, which operates from its headquarters in Pully, Switzerland. According to the vendor, the sovereign cloud runs in its own data centres in two Swiss regions, data stays in Switzerland under Swiss law, and the platform is not subject to the US CLOUD Act. Switzerland is not an EU member but an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. EveryWare also offers services on hyperscaler public clouds; those follow the hyperscaler's terms and locations, so confirm which offering applies to a given workload.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 17, 2026
Headquarters
SwitzerlandVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
SwitzerlandVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Cloud IaaS
Type
Product
Website
everyware.ch ↗

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European alternatives to EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud

The European alternatives to EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud

EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud include 1984 Hosting, acens and ADESTIS Cloud. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud?

Our list of EU alternatives to EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud is headquartered in Switzerland (EFTA) and hosts data in Switzerland. That makes EveryWare Swiss Sovereign Cloud an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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